Reality Check

The day today has been pretty much surreal to me. In the morning, and I mean way into the morning like around 12 to 1, I was just having coffee with a small gathering of friends and Ms.Girlie. Life was simple. Just chatting. Sipping Ice Blended Green Tea. Just absorbing what my friends are bitching about other people. Everything about that moment just seemed so normal. We wraped up our little outing at around 3 in the morning, Alvin dropped off everyone one by one and at last we pulled up by his house and I drove home in the torrential rain. Little did I know that in just a few hours, I would be experiancing an array of emotions.
It was 10.30am. I woke up, had breakfast and cleaned up. From then on, I dived head first into the 2 assignments which I had to hand in at 5pm the very same day! I worked and I worked my ass off. Barely able to cope with all the work which sapped me of my energy and brain power, a friend of mine, May came to the rescue and together we worked on the laborious conquests.
3pm. 3.30pm. 4pm. 4.30pm was when we finally finished and with 30 minutes to spare, we speeded off in my car towards INTI. And thank goodness, we were just in the nick of time.
Fast forward into the night. At 8.30pm, Jeffrey had picked us up (us as in me and Reuban) Our destination: Miss Ooi's wake. We met up there with former classmates and just paid our final respects to our mentor and friend. A person we learnt to hate and cherish, rebel and compromise. So many memories. Now gone.
The whole day just seemed so unusual. Within 24 hours, I had encountered so many feelings. At the end of the day, I'm left speechless. Unable to describe my feelings. I realize that sometimes, I really need to step back and view life from a different perspective. My life may end in just a blink of an eye and yet I dare speed on the road during a rainy day. Is there something fundamentally wrong with me...with people?
Days like these are a real wake up call for a reality check.